Open Thread – Weekend 26 Feb 2022
2,226 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 26 Feb 2022”
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Germany has said it is ready to accept a “targeted restriction” of Russia’s access to the Swift interbank platform, in retaliation for the Russian military operation in Ukraine, while wanting to “limit the collateral damage” of such a penalty.
And there you have why blocking Russia from SWIFT won’t happen.
SWIFT is f&^king expensive to use, and is feeling pressure from crypto alternatives. Sanctions just mean that SWIFT loses even more market share.
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Agree with all of that Dot. I could get along alone in our city home at considerable monetary cost, but there is no way I could continue to live in our beloved farm on my own. I recognise that completely. Help is very difficult to get to start with, and the nature of much of the work is beyond my physical capabilities.
On the other hand, our current arrangement acknowledges our capabilities. I am “livestock & pasture” – acknowledging my childhood upbringing on the land, & husband is “machinery & maintenance” acknowledging his skills. Largely that means decision making for me on the the issues of my expertise & his execution of most of those decisions – although I manage the cattle in many cases on my own. So, although I make a lot of management decisions – I could not physically operate the farm without him.
However, there is another area of expertise in which I have contributed substantially over our lifetime – & that is business & financial decision making. I am a researcher & those skills have enabled us to make some pretty critical decisions at significant times. We avoided potential ruin in our then current business prior to two financial global crises by taking prior action.
So, contrary to the rubbish promulgated by the Feminist movement, men and women operate best in this world by being complementary &, contrary to current behaviour – complimentary!
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Abiotic hydrocarbons exist; most of them are on Titan.
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By tying itself to a reckless and dangerous America, the Ukrainians made a blunder that client states will study for years to come
Excellent summary
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France Revokes Nearly 4 Million Vaccine Passports
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/france/france-revokes-nearly-4-million-vaccine-passports/
France
Posted Feb 26, 2022 by Martin ArmstrongFrance has deactivated nearly four million vaccine passes as the definition of “fully vaccinated” continues to change. Authorities are now requiring everyone over the age of 16 to receive their third booster dose within four months of their second dosage, which has been dramatically shortened from the original seven-month period. The Ministry of Health secretly acknowledged that the vaccines are not effective as contracting the coronavirus could serve as a booster replacement, “one infection = one dose.”
France will grant amnesty to those holding fake vaccine passes, warning them that now is their last chance to get vaccinated without consequences. An estimated 192,000 people currently have fraudulent vaccine passes as it is not possible to participate in French society without a vaccine passport. This means an additional four million people will be banned from entering public places. Oh, but the unvaccinated may still attend political rallies.
Has Macron’s promise to “piss off” the unvaccinated worked? As I have said, even if you took the vaccines, you are always one shot away from being labeled “unvaccinated,” banished from society. Will four million people comply and take an additional dose of an unknown substance? “I really want to piss off the unvaccinated – and that’s what we’re going to do, right until the end,” Macron stated in December. However, the people will ultimately decide when “the end” of this pandemic will take place.
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I suspect that once the Russians saw the new U.S. army ad, they knew the time was right…
For the comparison, see here
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Russian military attack on Ukraine: How we got there
Moscow says the current situation is the result of years of failed talks to end the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine after the 2014 coup in Kiev
Here are the key events of the past eight years that led to this conflict.
1. ‘Euromaidan’ protests in Kiev end with West-backed coup
2. Crimea votes to leave Ukraine for Russia
3. Conflict breaks out in Donbass
4. Minsk ceasefire puts an end to large-scale fighting
5. No reform, no peace for Donbass
6. Road to escalation in Donbass
7. Russia recognizes Donbass republics
8. Moscow launches ‘military operation’ in Ukraine
9. What comes next?
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How good is NSW gummint when it comes to building infrastructure? Parramatta stadium has cancelled tonight’s fitba match, Wanderers v Wellington! .. because of RAIN .. an enclosed stadium only opened 2 years ago and shut because .. the pitch won’t drain because of the amount of rain that has fallen into the Parramatta River! .. rendering the pitch drainage system almost useless! .. why wasn’t this covered in the original plans? .. it’s one thing for older venues to be rain affected but there is no excuse for an, almost, new stadium built with NSW tax payer funds to fail at it’s 1st attempt due to inclement weather … FFS!
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Sid Mohanram, senior vice president of software engineering at Verisk, a huge data-analytics and risk-assessment multinational, is overseeing his company’s migration away from COBOL. He’s part of a trend as companies and governments are exploring other options than the programming language that runs some of the world’s most critical applications.
“The goal is to get out of the mainframe,” Mohanram said.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a wakeup call for organizations running critical computer systems written in the 60-year-old programming language, COBOL. In the United States, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Vermont, Iowa, Kansas, and even the federal government have faced shortages of COBOL programmers to keep unemployment benefit systems running amid a historic spike in claims.
But a perceived shortage of COBOL programmers isn’t the only problem. COBOL has also become an old (though still quite reliable) clunker in the high-speed world of programming languages and software development.
“The speed by which we can implement changes in COBOL is slow, and people start building workarounds,” Mohanram said, creating a buildup of what he calls “technical debt.” “Developers say, ‘I need to make a change, but I’m too busy to make the COBOL changes, so I’m not going to touch the existing COBOL program, but I’ll add three more steps outside of COBOL, with Excel spreadsheets or something else, to apply the changes.’ So now you have this COBOL program that’s very dated, and a bunch of other things that are workarounds to get the final result.”
Reuters estimated in 2015 that there were 220 billion lines of COBOL code still in production running 43 percent of the world’s banking systems and 95 percent of its automated teller machines. Traffic lights, airlines, pension funds, and payroll systems all regularly run on COBOL.
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ICE St Moritz – International Concours of Elegance
The ICE St. Moritz has been created to enjoy driving, showing and watching some of the world’s most exciting motor cars in the unlikely environment of the frozen lake. Polo matches and Horse-Racing have been held there for decades, and a high class motoring event seemed the natural choice to expand the winter lake activities.
The idea first came in mind in the mid-Eighties and it took many years to make it true.
The ICE St.Moritz is a very different event, a refreshing concours. A completely magical environment where drivers, collectors, and just plain car enthusiasts enjoy a late winter day in the sunshine, surrounded by the landscape and atmosphere that only St.Moritz, at the top of the world, is able to offer.
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The only other method of drainage would have been to site the stadium on higher ground.
Why not a, once-in-a-100years , catchment dam a s a contingency plan? .. they had/have no shortage of, unused, land behind/side of the stadium but I’m guessing “it’ll never happen so why spend money” had some input .. LOL!
Then again, I might be being harsh .. I am talking fitba and, the powers that be, have shown time & time again with game cancellations during the BAT FLU fiasco how quick & easy it is to call games off for the slightest excuse .. LOL! -
“OldOzziesays:
February 27, 2022 at 8:14 am
Ukraine’s Deadly GambleBy tying itself to a reckless and dangerous America, the Ukrainians made a blunder that client states will study for years to come
Excellent summary”
Firstly OO, nice to see you. And thank you for that superb link from the always superb Tablet. It confirms my understanding of the whole imbroglio. The stinking role of Obama, Biden and the Demonrats in all of this cannot be questioned. Basically the Ukrainian government played with fire…..and they’re now burning.
Pity the Ukrainian people.
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OldOzzie says:
February 27, 2022 at 8:41 amLong-Enduring COBOL May Still Have a Shelf Life The aging programming language is giving way to younger, more flexible software environments
Cobol is not the problem, lack of people willing to learn it is.
All this hype about every new fangled programming language draws away from it, many young graduates out of uni only know about it by name only.The fact that you can incorporate code written in other languages proves that it’s still flexible and I think it’s still the best way to handle the task it was developed for, that is finance.
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… we should remember the values and hard-won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin, none more than LGBT+ rights.
The head of MI6, according to the Daily Mail.
Funny how Putin’s old firm was always on the look out for
Establishment chaps who preferred the company of other chaps.
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Dotsays:
February 27, 2022 at 6:10 amAnd the same people trying to wash Biden’s bloody hands out of this, also tell you that our enemies don’t use drugs as a weapon of war against us.
In the US, Fentanyl is The HIGHEST KILLER of 18 to 45 year olds by a long straw, and that’s not counting the greater number who are effectively the walking dead.
All the fighting force ages the enemy doesn’t have to spend a bullet on.
They pay the enemy to kill themselves for the enemy.There is such a reckoning coming for those who know all this yet lie otherwise.
Is this a “God speaks to me, my children!” moment you rambling bloody fool?
Get this through your thick skull:
1. You are talking about foreign enemies undermining the USA.
2. Jansen Pharmaceuticals (Netherlands, a US/NATO ally) first made Fentanyl.
3. Jansen is now a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson (USA), subject to a stock split.Just stop.
War successfully makes people forget how many death J&J has already paid out for and that yesterday people were just waking up to Big Pharma Lies For Profits.
Nah, only joking, some have always shilled for the mob that had the world locked down ‘for Covid’ for profits and at the same time re-opened the US borders to step up the trafficking of drugs, slaves & children.
Watch for the explosive anger. It means …
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Fox News coverage of Ukraine (via Foxtel channel 608) has been excellent. Fox has flown its own people into the capital Kiev and the western Ukraine university town Liviv on the Polish border.
Meanwhile, Sky New Australia is getting its Ukraine coverage from CNN, FFS! What a clown show!
My on complaint about the Fox News coverage is that none of their reporters know how to pronounce Kiev. It’s Ki-EV, you idiots, not KEEV.
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The US really is turning into a collapsing smoldering rubbish heapThis video is not an aberration. It’s an extreme example of behaviour that is pretty typical of the most overindulged and cosseted group of people in world history: well-off American liberals. And the problem is that these people – and the decrepit, corrupt Boomers leading them, clammy fingers clasped firmly around the reins of power – are undermining society’s capacity for sensible self-governance. They offer sickly sweet pronouncements about kindness and protecting the vulnerable. But these merely mask their truly scary authoritarian impulses.
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“Tomsays:
February 27, 2022 at 4:49 am”I’ve seen the piece, I can’t access it because I’m not on my work computer…but my immediate reaction on seeing the drivel was WTF and why I’m glad I no longer subscribe to the Oz.
Jonathan Kay is the associate editor of Quillette, which perhaps explains why I gave up reading Quillette over two years ago. Most of the stuff is tedious. I’m not particularly enamoured of Claire Lehmann either, both Kay and Lehmann can’t think outside the box, particularly when it comes to Trump and Covid.
I remember seeing Kay interviewed about two years ago and he referred to Canada’s only real objective and unbiased news outlet, Rebel News, as “cartoonish”……which is rather laughable because, given his drivel on Trudeau and Trump, it isn’t Ezra Levant and Rebel that’s “cartoonish”, it’s the likes of Kay and Lehmann.
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Anchor What says:
February 27, 2022 at 7:43 amThe ABC while reporting that Orban of Hungary has sided with the EU regarding sanctions against Russia couldn’t resist the urge to add that Orban was usually a big supporter of Putin. Doesn’t sound correct to me.
Sometimes we just have to remember The Swamp Is Global and no one said they’ve given up on draining it.
Also, it pays to give the snakes somewhere to slither to before you flush them out, somewhere experienced at dealing with snakes.
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Involuntary shock treatment in Queensland?
Involuntary Mental Health Orders and the Use of ECT on Children in Qld
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How good is NSW gummint when it comes to building infrastructure?
Parra Stadium – fail.
Trains too wide for tunnels – fail.
Ferries too high for Parra River bridges – fail.
“Ferry McFerryface” fiasco- fail.
CBD light rail 9 months late and double the budget – fail.
Inner-west light rail service paused by cracks in the new vehicles – fail.
New Manly ferries with cracks in the hull. And incapable of loading passengers at low tide. And unsafe when crossing the heads in big seas – fail.Yet we continue to overpay the senseless bureaucrats and politicians who make the original purchase decisions.
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https://twitter.com/MarketRebels/status/1497675529490767881?t=9rFjewIQIkpLU6_u7Cn0sg&s=09
The financial director of Gazprom (big gas company) has been found dead by suicide in St Petersburg
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Shatterzzzz, there was a huge amount of work done on Toongabbie Creek years ago to try to mitigate some of the damage from 1 in 100 floods.
Apart from damming the river upstream, affecting millions of properties, there isn’t a lot they can do. Siting the stadium in the bend of the river wasn’t the best choice, but it was the only available land.
The catchment has always had this problem – a vast array of ephemeral creeks that have been piped and built over that deliver water far too quickly to the lowest point, in this case the Parramatta river. The other hotspot is West Ryde in the dip. The pressure from the system used to blow the manhole covers. Too much development on what is, essentially, a floodplain.
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How to pronounce Kyiv and why it is Kyiv not Kiev (from 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8kkbc2pK6M -
Yet we continue to overpay the senseless bureaucrats and politicians who make the original purchase decisions.
Many of whom jump ship tp join those projects at very opportune times to clean up as consultants and contractors . Projects projects they have deliberately fkd up and filled with loopholes for “variances”.
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Old School Conservativesays:
February 27, 2022 at 9:14 am
How good is NSW gummint when it comes to building infrastructure?Parra Stadium – fail.
Trains too wide for tunnels – fail.
Ferries too high for Parra River bridges – fail.
“Ferry McFerryface” fiasco- fail.
CBD light rail 9 months late and double the budget – fail.
Inner-west light rail service paused by cracks in the new vehicles – fail.
New Manly ferries with cracks in the hull. And incapable of loading passengers at low tide. And unsafe when crossing the heads in big seas – fail.Yet we continue to overpay the senseless bureaucrats and politicians who make the original purchase decisions.
More fools us.OSC, as someone who worked for Federal Govt Dept (indirectly for NSW Govt and all other States and Territories), sold into State and Federal Govt Depts, the golden rule for both Public Service Bureaucrats and Ministers was to pick Companies from overseas so you could be feted, go on lots of overseas trips to assess, then after selecting overseas company, be continuously travelling overseas for support meetings.
If Premier Perrottet had any brains, he would employ for every Minister, an experienced Executive in the Minister’s Portfolio to be a permanent external adviser to counteract the Portfolio Bureaucrats
Premier Perrottet should make it mandatory for every Minister appointed to watch the Complete Series of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister with a test after each episode
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ONE of the most chilling sights in Budapest’s “House of Terror” is a Soviet T-55 battle tank. Such killing machines were dispatched by the Soviet Union to crush Hungary’s 1956 uprising against the Communist regime. It is unnerving to set eyes on this hulking grey metal beast in a museum when Russian tanks are now rolling into neighbouring Ukraine.
One of the other chilling sights in said “House of Terror”, on the walls surrounding said tank, are the photographs of those Hungarians who were killed in the 1956 uprising.
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“Indolent says:
February 27, 2022 at 8:44 amBen Carson at CPAC: Saying No to COVID-19 Vaccines for Kids ‘Makes You a Very Good Parent’”
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theepochtimes.com%2Fben-carson-at-cpac-saying-no-to-covid-19-vaccines-for-kids-makes-you-a-very-good-parent_4302971.html%2F%3Futm_source%3Dpartner%26utm_campaign%3DTheLibertyDailyYep, years, decades, of war against parents right & duty to protect their children From State Mandated Abuses but few wanted to fight it.
So now when the assaults against children stepped up, parents freely sacrificed them for ‘freedom’ and social acceptance.
Masks, UK reports have children already losing 20 I.Q. points!
That’s a devastation for at least another generation in a country where the average was only 100.
Sometimes I think everyone should have to read The Screwtape Letters before they can vote on anything.
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Headphones change listeners’ perceptions, judgements, behaviors
Headphones have a much greater impact on listeners than external speakers because they put voices “inside your head,” a new study explains.
“Headphones produce a phenomenon called in-head localization, which makes the speaker sound as if they’re inside your head,” said study co-author On Amir, a professor of marketing at the University of California, San Diego.
“Consequently, listeners perceive the communicators as closer — both physically and socially. As a result, listeners perceive the communicator as warmer, they feel and behave more empathically toward them and they are more easily persuaded by them,” Amir explained in a university news release.
The findings could have significant implications for training programs, remote work and advertising, according to the researchers.
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This is dated 2019.
Looking around further on the web, it’s pretty clear that a number of US majors are planning massive multi billion $ LNG expansion projects to serve the European market. One potential outcome of the Ukraine situation is that US LNG outfits will benefit immensely from increased market share of the Euro energy market.
Another headline NYT Feb 2022;
Natural Gas Shipments, Mostly From U.S., Ease Europe’s Energy Crunch
As Russia squeezes supplies, a parade of tankers carrying liquefied natural gas is coming to Europe’s rescue.I doubt this will worry Vlad to much. Russia can divert any amount of gas production to nearby new bestie China.
“Russia, China agree 30-year gas deal via new pipeline, to settle in euros”
It would appear that Vlad can take over the Donetsk region without suffering any real lasting loss in gas revenues . And some big US energy outfits are going to make a killing on the Euro gas markets. Ukraine is a mere pawn.
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Here is a war dunny.
Note the bloke with the durry. I guess they are all having a chat, but I’d get in get done and get out, especially when the fly numbers exploded, as the dunnies did from time to time with the help of said durry heading south to the noxious gasses below and sometimes by design, as an aid on fly control.
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The catchment has always had this problem – a vast array of ephemeral creeks that have been piped and built over that deliver water far too quickly to the lowest point, in this case the Parramatta river. The other hotspot is West Ryde in the dip. The pressure from the system used to blow the manhole covers. Too much development on what is, essentially, a floodplain.
I was thinking something like the Northmead Dam built, for no other purpose than, to contain an over-abundance of water from continual downpours .. not so much a dam, as the word implies, but a temporary storage facility to either evaporate or be released into the natural system when conditions are suitable … -
And here is Jacinda. Oh it must hurt, to be a Princess and then a witch.
But check out that stratospheric net worth rise. I wonder how that happened.
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Helen,
just for you
Lethal diseases have ravaged militaries across the millennia. Enemy No. 1: poor sanitation
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How to pronounce Kyiv and why it is Kyiv not Kiev (from 2018)
Should we pronounce Moscow as Moskva? Paris as Paree? Berlin, Bearlin?
What’s wrong with using the standard English pronunciations?
We’ll end up sounding like SBS news readers, whose inconsistency in applying the rule of adopting the native pronunciation only highlights the absurdity of it.
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Nine did ‘deal’ with SAS witness to try and ‘steer clear’ of war crime allegations: court
Perry Duffin
Senior Court Reporter
@perryduffin1
NCA NewsWire
5:52PM February 25, 2022Nine’s lawyers told an emotionally fragile SAS soldier they should be able to “steer clear” of his involvement in an alleged double war crime killing if he testified against Ben Roberts-Smith, a court has heard.
Mr Roberts-Smith’s lawyers have claimed emails reveal the “deal” between Nine and the SAS soldier raises ”concerns” about the conduct of the defence in the high profile defamation trial – a claim denied by Nine‘s council.
Mr Roberts-Smith is suing Nine and its journalists over a series of articles that claim he either killed, or ordered the killing, of six unarmed Afghans while deployed with the SAS.
Nine maintains the articles are true and have called SAS soldiers to testify against the Victoria Cross recipient about the allegations.
In an extraordinary hearing on Friday morning, one of Nine’s lawyers took the stand to be questioned by Mr Roberts-Smith’s barrister, Arthur Moses SC.
The focus of Mr Moses’ questions were emails between Nine’s lawyers and the lawyers for an SAS soldier known as Person 56 in August 2021.
It‘s understood Nine hoped Person 56 would testify about a mission in Darwan, in 2012, in which Mr Roberts-Smith is accused of kicking an unarmed, bound Afghan farmer named Ali Jan off a “cliff”.
The injured farmer, on Nine’s version of events, was shot dead by another Coalition soldier as he lay in a dry creek bed below.
Mr Roberts-Smith has denied the allegations entirely and says the only person he killed that could have been Ali Jan was carrying a suspected Taliban radio in a cornfield near the dry creek.
The court had refused to hear from Person 56 because Nine could not provide an outline, or summary, of what his evidence would be before he was called to court.
That‘s because Person 56 did not want to speak with Nine, the court heard.
On Friday it was revealed Nine had again approached Person 56 in the middle of 2021 to try and get him to speak – and they offered up an “agreement”, the court heard.
Nine’s lawyer, Peter Bartlett, told the court on Friday that his colleague had approached Person 56, through his lawyers, telling him they were aware the SAS soldier was involved in a double killing.
Nine said they believed Person 56 and Mr Roberts-Smith had killed people in the town of Fasil on November 5, 2012 – according to a transcript of the conversation contained in an email.
“The 5 November incident is hotly contested. The two people killed were by BRS and a member of his patrol, which we now know to be your client,” Nine lawyer Dean Levitan said to Sean Richter – Person 56’s lawyer
“We think we can steer clear of all that stuff and limit it to Darwan.”
Mr Bartlett confirmed that Nine’s lawyers had offered not to press their questions about Fasil if Person 56 willingly spoke to them about Darwan and agreed to give evidence in court
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Looks like Putin has rolled the dice and come up short.
A brief but useful summary of events on the ground thus far by Richard Fernandez.
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there is no doubt that Trudeau overstepped his authority and was forced to beat a hasty retreat. But this is no consolation, for Trudeau and his allies will only regroup, strategize and prepare to launch another attack, or series of attacks, against the social contract and the body politic.Some liberal democracy
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I think there is evidence everywhere that the great big awakening is winning over the great big reset.
Censorship of the truth by big tech and MSM
Misinformation about the efficacy of therapeutics treatment of the ChinaVirus
Having to forcibly get people to take a vaccine for an overall very harmless virus
Freezing bank accounts
Closing state borders
These are not the actions of the side that’s winning.
They are panicking, bigly.
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custardsays:
February 27, 2022 at 10:09 am
I think there is evidence everywhere that the great big awakening is winning over the great big reset.Censorship of the truth by big tech and MSM
Misinformation about the efficacy of therapeutics treatment of the ChinaVirus
Having to forcibly get people to take a vaccine for an overall very harmless virus
Freezing bank accounts
Closing state borders
These are not the actions of the side that’s winning.
They are panicking, bigly.
They pushed it as far as they thought they could and got away with it.
I believe they are winning.
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This made a lot of sense to me when I read it.
“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.”
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Must admit I always thought it was Key-eff but then why do we pronounce Goethe the German way and Luther like reading English?
I don’t really care how they pronounce it but it’d be a lot simpler just to spell it KIEV .. like it has been for yonks instead of this look-how-clever-we-is media adaptation to KYIV .. never , ever remember seeing it spelt this way (in English) until 3 days ago .. LOL!
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Fixing the family cars
Beating/killing home intruders before the cops come
Cleaning gutters
Fixing the roof
Being the family gravedigger for family pets
Doing most of the driving on long trips
Working when you are on maternity leave and paying the mortgage
Paying most of the bills
Unlicensed electrical work
Any gardening/clean up beyond planting petunias
Good old stinking tip runs to the waste management centre
The majority of handyman work
Unlicensed plumbing & electrical
Getting quotes from tradespeopleDoing house renovations after other people have been watching The Block
Painting feature walls
Removing feature walls and putting them in other rooms in other colours after the next episode of The Block
Pack-horsing bamboo screens and lattice and endless plants out of Bunnings for someone else’s project, then doing that project yourself because after 20 minutes it became apparent that it wasn’t like on the telly
Killing spiders
Explaining why it’s not my fault spiders are in the house (and the verandah and the garden)
Installing fake old-timey railway station clocks in lounge rooms
Conducting tutorials on why dynabolts won’t work in plaster
Doing dishes that aren’t yours because you were at work
Having any conversation with anyone outside the household that may involve disagreement
Changing tap washers
Walking unruly dogs because it’s too hard
Spending the first hour after your arrival home after a 14 hour day resolving petty arguments other people have had
Sundry other tasks so that other people can conduct a bit of one-upmanship during ‘girl time’ by saying ‘well I get him to do this, this and that, haha.’10 hours a week. Surely Amnesty International would be interested in this.
‘He’d be happy eating beans on toast 5 days a week’. She’s not worried about his diet.
This is a shameless ploy for the bloke to stop doing his full-time work ‘because he’s at home’ and make HER some frightful bok choi-based stir fried arrangement with 40 ingredients every day, carefully plated up – as they do on the telly.
That poor sod’s only got to do this once, and it’s all over. Once the dam is breached, it’ll be a variety of three-lettuce lunches with oil from Moldova and chicken blancmange or whatever Andrew Daddo made on set that day.
Don’t tactically withdraw, son. Walk backwards quickly, and run a scorched earth policy as you go that would put Stalin to shame.
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Ukrainian driver talks to the Russians who run out of fuel on their way to #Kyiv:
– Vehicle broke?
– No, waiting for diesel.
– I can tug you back to Russia!
– [Russians laugh]
– Do you know where are you going?
– No. What’s in the news?
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Australia’s worst political cartoonist, David Pope, has joined the ranks of the likes of Jane Caro and Waleed Ali.
He has won a Walkley.
He’s awful, welded on sub cerebral ‘progressive’, plodding draftsmanship, works cluttered with so many bourgeois left ‘talking points’ that they are often unintelligent and, as COVID has revealed, an enthusiastic worshiper of state power, the last a very bad look indeed for any political cartoonist.
He makes Kathy Wilcox look brave and independent by comparison
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The First Casualty of War is the Truth – The Current Western Propaganda for Ukraine is Epic in Scale
February 26, 2022 | Sundance | 516 Comments
When we shared yesterday that all interested observers should be very wary of the information from media sources around Ukraine, there was a reason for that. Question everything. Take nothing at face value.
If you have never experienced the propaganda push surrounding war, the totality of the inbound bullsh*t can be destabilizing, overwhelming and unnerving. It’s one of the reasons why CTH doesn’t share immediate information. Everyone has an agenda.
Everything in modern warfare is storytelling.
Question all of it.
The stories of the 13 guards on an island telling the Russian naval ship to fuck off, yeah it was a lie (turns out they surrendered). The “Ghost of Kyiv” pilot, the lady with the sunflower seeds etc., now all recognized as lies and propaganda. And do not expect it to stop, because it won’t. Thus, the nature of warfare for your mind.
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Yet we continue to overpay the senseless bureaucrats and politicians who make the original purchase decisions.
More fools us.This shits me to tears.
Underpaid, underrecognised, and seeing projects continually fucked up by people paid far more than me. I consistently get projects completed successfully, overcome obstacles and never fuck up like these people do. These things would never happen under my watch and yet I cant get any of these jobs because they value experience over performance, face value claims over real world results and friends over strangers.
There’s a commonality in those failures, and it’s Transport for NSW. Execs can totally screw up and leverage claims of success when the opposite is true to get bigger jobs on obscene pay.
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Byron York’s Daily Memo: A guide to Clinton dirty tricks
by Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent
A GUIDE TO CLINTON DIRTY TRICKS. Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, Secretary of State, and 2016 presidential candidate, is deflecting again. Recent revelations from a federal investigation have suggested that her campaign engaged in dirty tricks in the race against Donald Trump six years ago. Those revelations, of course, come on top of earlier disclosures that she engaged in what might be called the ultimate dirty trick, the Steele dossier, in the same campaign.
Now that there is some attention being paid to these matters, Clinton is lashing out against Trump and some media outlets.
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EDITORIAL
With Putin already exploiting Biden’s weakness, don’t go soft on China tooby Washington Examiner
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Indolent says:
February 27, 2022 at 9:14 am
Involuntary shock treatment in Queensland?Involuntary Mental Health Orders and the Use of ECT on Children in Qld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_2zk0oyQQA
The more evil we accept because the medical experts tell us we should, the more evil is inflicted on by the medical experts.
Yes, they, not ‘the politicians’ they install to do their will.
We made doctors our gods, trusting our lives to them, and like all false gods, they have served us like the devil.
Sure, there are good and blessing men amongst them as in all fields of human endeavour but when we look around now at how many have had to fight to keep their licences for daring to work to keep people alive and make them well, against the establishments orders, we’ve obviously established the wrong ones on top and in our ‘faith’.
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Amazing: Kyiv Is Still Holding out, and Putin Is Reportedly Furious
Russia seems to be running out of steam, along with fuel, ammo, money, and time.
Ukraine Responds With an Attack in Russia, and More Weapons Are on Way to Ukraine
While Ukraine is under attack from the Russians in their own country, they struck back on Friday on an airfield from which some of the attacks on their country are believed to have been launched.
That doesn’t sound like a country on the verge of defeat.
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Cobol is not the problem, lack of people willing to learn it is.
There is still a lot of spaghetti code around that is difficult to change and companies have built massive and very clunky change control processes. So that is why people don’t like touching it.
As part of y2k remediation I looked at a cobol program, that was still in use, written in 1965 and not touched in the intervening period. I suggested that it would be quicker and safer to rewrite than remediate, but was told to remediate. I know that it was still in use until at least 2015.
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Pedro L. Gonzalez
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Myth: Ukrainians were killed to a man on Snake Island by RussiansReality: Ukraine says the soldiers surrendered and there’s footage of them receiving food and water (glad they’re alive)
The speed at which things that didn’t happen go viral as “truth” in this conflict is crazy
Apparently now confirmed by Ukraine Defence Ministry.
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Second and last post on this hilarious yet terrifying subject.
I was once hooked up with a tasty bit of kit (TBOK). Had some potential to be, y’know, serious. Her parents had a shed about the size of a carport on their block which was ramshackle and generally fucked.
I was given a tour of the shed (which I’d seen and been in countless times anyway), and the prospect of demolishing it and replacing it with a newer structure was raised – first in general terms, and then specifically that I do it, as her old man had broken his leg the year before and wasn’t yet 100%.
Hopeful-future-MIL then said that should this be accomplished, I would be considered to have crossed over from boyfriend to potential husband material. This was one thing, but as this message was being delivered TBOK was nodding in the background like TV reporters do on ACA. Clearly, this had been discussed at length and in my absence.
Having seen my future at that point, I became noncommittal yet genial. And then, the following week, I walked. Walked, like a man who could see colour and smell freshly-cut grass for the first time, and like someone who went across traffic to get out of a one-way street, and who then had his choice of roads to drive on.
And six months later I threw it all away by proposing to my new girlfriend of three months whilst drunk as ten men in Noosa. As the man said in Trainspotting, ‘It’s a fucking tightrope‘.
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2 more merchant ships hit by Russian attacks in Black Sea.
Japanese bulk carrier MV Namura Queen hit by a rocket at anchor off Yuzhne.
Moldovan chemical tanker MV Millennial Spirit hit and set on fire 12 miles to the south
Ouch. That’s not helpful Vlad.
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Hamish MacDonald in the SMH:
‘A war correspondent’s nightmare: deciphering Putin’
I guess Hamish hasn’t bothered to watch or read the English transcript of Putin’s hour long speech to the Russian people explaining in plain language his objectives. And in fact hasn’t paid much attention to anything Putin has said over the last decade, like his similarly dumbfounded Australian journalistic colleagues (Stan Grant a notable exception).
The conceit of Western elitists on display: they believe everyone is at heart a rootless, nihilistic, hedonistic liberal made in their image, even when someone has told them to take their bankrupt ideology and shove it.
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Myth: Ukrainians were killed to a man on Snake Island by Russians
A massive pro-Ukraine propaganda campaign is underway across all kinds of media. Russia has been blanked out from participating in the news so punters are predominantly hearing the very much hyped US/EU/Ukraine version of censored events unfolding.
From what I can gather, the Russian objective to keep everyone busy guessing around Kiev and other parts of Ukraine while securing the Donbass/Donetsk region with physical Russian occupancy is progressing.
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Why I blame the arrogant, foolish West:
Our response to this crisis in Ukraine has been to react with mistrust and abuse, and with blatant attempts to worsen the situation,
writes PETER HITCHENS
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Russia seems to be running out of steam, along with fuel, ammo, money, and time.
People need to stop kidding themselves. We are only at day four. Russia has deployed no more than 60,000 soldiers in in at least five separate lines of advance. They have not used any artillery. None of the ‘shock and awe’ that the US used in Iraq. They are for now still treading very lightly. I hope this continues and quickly goes to the negotiating table.
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Skah just showed some footage of what appears to be a series of shredded-up shade structures, complete with burn damage in an urban Ukrainian environment. Undamaged buildings, plenty of parked-up unexploded cars.
Half a dozen blokes in uniform standing around the damage. They’re all on phones. Not one is carrying a firearm.
This was mentioned yesterday. I am beginning to think this stinks.
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Makkasays:
February 27, 2022 at 11:07 am
Myth: Ukrainians were killed to a man on Snake Island by RussiansA massive pro-Ukraine propaganda campaign is underway across all kinds of media. Russia has been blanked out from participating in the news so punters are predominantly hearing the very much hyped US/EU/Ukraine version of censored events unfolding.
From what I can gather, the Russian objective to keep everyone busy guessing around Kiev and other parts of Ukraine while securing the Donbass/Donetsk region with physical Russian occupancy is progressing.
And if the Covid psyop is anything to go by, the Sheep will just lap it up.
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